AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

9/19/1977

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (42)	1,094	1
2	USC (5)	1,032	2
3	Oklahoma (7)	955	5
4	Ohio State (2)	877	6
5	Penn State (5)	717	10
6	Texas A&M	708	7
7	Texas Tech	631	8
8	Colorado	435	12
9	Texas (1)	287	18
10	Alabama	219	4
11	Notre Dame	206	3
12	Mississippi State	204	13
13	Florida	190	19
14	Nebraska	161	NR
15	Washington State	129	NR
16	Arkansas	108	NR
17	West Virginia	83	NR
18	UCLA	80	14
19	Houston	73	9
20	BYU	64	20

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.